Government and PP warm up engines with the energy plan for the long electoral course

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  • The confrontation between the two great parties it flares up: the popular speak of the Executive imposing the “ration card” and the socialists accuse the PP of generating “noise”, confusion and “boycott” the savings plan

  • Both rehearse positions facing a very long year with regional and municipal and general. The Government believes that the battle mobilizes its own

The energy saving measures that entered into force on August 10 mean, for the PP, “to be hugging a ration card”. For the socialists, from the opposition only emerges “artificial, destructive noise“, nor do they believe that the appeal of unconstitutionality that the Community of Madrid has announced against them will have a future. And for the conservatives, to affirm that Isabel Díaz Ayuso will have to do “contortions legal” to overthrow the decree law of the Executive is as much as “to interfere” in the tribunals.

The political entanglement on account of the government’s energy saving plan, approved last August 1It doesn’t stop getting fat. Day after day. To the point of colonizing public debate in an August that has practically become a eventful prologue of a very long electoral course that will start in September, which will have its great flying goal in May, with the regional and municipal elections, and which will end, if there are no changes, in December 2023, with the general elections that will face Pedro Sánchez with Alberto Núñez Feijoo. There will be no truce until then because the battle is fierce, with a PP that feels that Moncloa is within reach and a president who is not willing to surrender the square without fighting with all his weapons. “This year it will be of a lot of electoral voltage“, They recommend in Sánchez’s team. Everything will already give off a taste of the polls.

The PSOE reproaches the PP for not proposing alternatives: it has “no one in charge”, “no one capable of taking the helm and returning it to the sense of State”, says López

That is why the long summer snake of the royal decree law on energy saving and efficiency It is operating as a test for Executive and opposition. The spiral did not slow down even this Wednesday, when the obligation to regulate the interior temperature of public and private premises came into force —27 degrees in summer, 19 in winter (with many exceptions)— and the off of shop windows and public administrative buildings unoccupied after 10 p.m.

The new socialist spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, pointed out from Bilbao that the text contains “literally” the measures that Feijóo requested, but “Ayuso he says noshowing who is really in charge in the PP”. The popular ones join the “unsupportive selfishness”, “their usefulness in these moments of crisis is none”, “they say that they do not like the plan but they do not make a single proposal to say what they like”. According to López, the problem is that Spain does not have “a reasonable conservative party”, the PP does not have “anyone in charge”, “nobody capable of taking the helm and returning it to the sense of State of the who walked away a long time ago.”They haven’t said anything at alljust artificial, destructive noise that builds absolutely nothing,” he added.

“Energetic Hell”

The exlendakari recognized that “surely“There was a lack of communication with the sectors affected by the decree because in politics “there is always a lack of pedagogy”, but “some have taken it upon themselves to extend what did not appear in the decree with the aim of harming and calling it into question”. the PP has played to the confusion, encouraging “negative issues“, the doubts and the reluctance of merchants and hoteliers. “What is the problem of the PP with this plan? Exclusively, that Pedro Sánchez has proposed it. This is his great vision of Spain, his sense of state and his solidarity with our European partners,” denounced López, who considered it a “scandal” that the popular predict that the shop windows are turned off at ten at night “security will worsen” of the streets, as if all of Spain were “Madrid’s Gran Vía”.

Genoa endorses the announced appeal before the Madrid TC because it sees “invasion of powers” and believes that the Executive encourages a “smokescreen” to cover the ERE

The PP, in turn, climbed several steps in its strategy of ruthless criticism of the decree. The Deputy Secretary for Regional and Local Coordination of the PP, Pedro RollanI speak of “energetic hell“, he asked again for the withdrawal of the decree, reproached the Government for feeding a “smokescreen” not to mention the Supreme Court’s condemnation of the ERE case. “We are embracing an energy ration card“, he said, pulling hyperbole.

Rollán, in addition, endorsed the announced appeal of the Community of Madrid against the decree law: the arguments are “sufficiently reasoned” and he sees a “invasion of powers“, because the power to regulate trade belongs to the autonomous communities, and they are the ones that determine the opening times or how many Sundays and holidays the stores can open. The truth is that so far no regional government, not even those of The Basque Country or Catalonia have threatened to go to the Constitutional Court. Neither have the other four in the hands of the PP. What’s more, the Andalusian Juanma Moreno, although he believes “probable“an invasion of powers, does not want to open a “judicial battle” against the Government in this matter.

The Executive states that it is calm with the wording of the text. Many “legal contortions” Ayuso will have to do to overturn the decree, the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, affirmed on Telecinco. In her opinion, “it is difficult to consider it to be unconstitutional”, since the rule only modifies specific points of the Regulation of Thermal Installations in Buildings (RITE), of 2007, which refer to the interior temperature of refrigerated or heated rooms. The royal decree law 14/2022 also takes into account the 1997 regulations safety in workplaces, since when it comes to light jobs (that is, not sedentary), the temperature must be between 14 and 25 degrees.

Don’t be “afraid” of Ayuso

Llop again supported the argument of the Executive to paint Feijóo as a puppet leader of Ayuso. He asked her to “put order in his party”, to demonstrate his leadership and not to have “fear” to the president of Madrid. “I really am missing Mr. [Pablo] Casado, who did confront Mrs. Díaz Ayuso and yet Mr. Feijóo seems to be afraid to confront I don’t know if it is because he believes that the same consequences await him as Mr. Casado,” he goaded.

Llop assures that Ayuso will have to make “many legal contortions” to justify his appeal. For the PP, that is “interfering” in the decision of the courts

That the head of Justice spoke of “legal contortions” is a “insult“for the PP. Rollán accused her of”to interfere” in a judicial decision, and those words state that “the Government in no way respects the separation of powers”.

Definitely, total war for energy savings in the middle of the heat wave. In Moncloa, despite the incessant shower of criticism, they believe that their strategy is bearing fruit. “It is good that they are forced to say things like the ones Pedro Rollán said to the media. we are pressuring them. They are amazing, of course, but it is good that they lose their papers. Of course your message creek in a part of the citizenry, and of merchants and hoteliers, but also mobilize ours the more shorthanded they get”, analyzes a minister.

In Ecological Transition, the department that has led the guidelines for the measures, they wonder where Feijóo is after reading Ursula von der Leyen’s tweetPresident of the European Commission, who applauded the “valuable voluntary measures“adopted by several Member States to reduce the energy bill. She, they remember, has already warned of the black scenario that awaits in the fall if Vladimir Putin cuts off the gas supply.

“They are deniers and look for any excuse to disguise what they are: trumpists,” they say in the Government about the PP

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“Why do they encourage the boycott?? Demagoguery is rampant in Genoa. Are deniers and look for any excuse to disguise what they are: trumpists. They know that they are not going to win anything in the Constitutional Court, and they know that businesses and hotels are complying with the rules because they want to save. But it has become clear that Ayuso commands in Genoa, who has imposed his thesis against Feijóo and has won“, they underline in the team of the third vice president, Teresa Ribera.

Energy saving as an electoral tool. The PP understands that this sensitive (and visible) matter can translate into support for certain sectors. Just as socialists believe that the call to “boycott” On the part of the conservatives it will take its toll and expose Feijóo in front of Ayuso.



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